The divine goodness exercised towards the wretched and the guilty, in harmony with truth and justice, Psalm 85:10. The plan by which God is enabled to show saving mercy to men, for Christ's sake, is the most consummate work of infinite wisdom and love. The soul that has truly experienced the mercy of God will be merciful like him, Luke 6:36, compassionate to the wretched, Psalm 41:1,2, and forgiving towards all, Matthew 5:7 18:33.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Compassion for the miserable. Its object is misery. By the atoning sacrifice of Christ a way is open for the exercise of mercy towards the sons of men, in harmony with the demands of truth and righteousness (Genesis 19:19; Exodus 20:6; 34:6, 7; Psalm 85:10; 86:15, 16). In Christ mercy and truth meet together. Mercy is also a Christian grace (Matthew 5:7; 18:33-35).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

In the Old Testament it is most often the translation of checedh, "kindness," "loving-kindness" (see LOVINGKINDNESS), but rachamim, literally, "bowels" (the sympathetic region), and chanan, "to be inclined to," "to be gracious," are also frequently translated "mercy"; eleos, "kindness," "beneficence," and eleeo, "to show kindness," are the chief words rendering "mercy" in the New Testament; oiktirmos, "pity," "compassion," occurs a few times, also oiktirmon, "pitiful," eleemon, "kind," "compassionate," twice; hileos, "forgiving," and anileos, "not forgiving," "without mercy," once each (Hebrews 8:12James 2:13).

(e) it goes forth to all (Psalm 145:9, "Yahweh is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works"; compare 145:16, "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing," the Revised Version margin "satisfiest every living thing with favor");

(3) In the New Testament "mercy" (eleos, usually the Septuagint translation of checedh) is associated with "grace" (charis) in the apostolical greetings and elsewhere. Trench points out that the difference between them is that the freeness of God's love is the central point of charis, while eleos has in view misery and its relief; charis is His free grace and gift displayed in the forgiveness of sins-extended to men as they are guilty; His eleos (is extended to them) as they are miserable. The lower creation may be the object of His mercy (eleos), but man alone of His grace (charis); he alone needs it and is capable of receiving it (Synonyms of the New Testament, 163).

(4) From all the foregoing it will be seen that mercy in God is not merely His pardon of offenders, but His attitude to man, and to the world generally, from which His pardoning mercy proceeds. The frequency with which mercy is enjoined on men is specially deserving of notice, with the exclusion of the unmerciful from sonship to the all-merciful Father and from the benefits of His mercifulness. Shakespeare's question, "How canst thou hope for mercy rendering none?" is fully warranted by our Lord's teaching and by Scripture in general; compare especially the parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Matthew 18:21-35).

(5) As the rule, the American Standard Revised Version has "lovingkindness" for "mercy" when checedh is used of God, and "kindness" when it is used of men in relation to each other. "Compassion" (translation of racham) is also in several instances substituted for "mercy" (Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 27:11Jeremiah 13:14; Jeremiah 30:18), also "goodness" (translation of checedh referring to man) (Hosea 4:1; Hosea 6:6).

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Matthew 9:13 But you go and learn what this means:'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. "(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Matthew 9:27 As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 12:7 But if you had known what this means,'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Matthew 15:22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!"(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 17:15 "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'(WEB ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 5:19 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 1:50 His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 1:54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Luke 1:58 Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 13:32 And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.(BBE)

Luke 16:24 He cried and said,'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV)

Luke 18:39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.(BBE)

John 9:3 "Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.(WEY)

Acts 4:30 While your hand is stretched out to do works of mercy; so that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. (BBE)

Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.(WEB BBE)

Acts 24:4 But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.(BBE)

Romans 1:31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:(BBE)

Romans 3:25 He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--(WEY BBE DBY YLT)

Romans 9:15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 9:16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 11:21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.(BBE)

Romans 11:22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.(BBE)

Romans 11:30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 11:31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 11:32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 12:1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.(See NIV)

Romans 12:8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 15:9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 6:16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:7 That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus: (BBE)

Philippians 2:27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 3:12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;(BBE)

1 Timothy 1:13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 1:16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

2 Timothy 1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

2 Timothy 1:18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Titus 1:4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.(WEB KJV WBS)

Titus 3:4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,(BBE)

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 2:17 Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.(BBE)

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 8:12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.(BBE)

Hebrews 9:5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in detail.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (KJV WEY DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

James 5:11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.(WEB KJV BBE WBS NIV)

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 2:10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 3:20 Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:(BBE)

2 Peter 2:5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;(BBE)

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.(BBE)

2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:12 And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.(BBE)

Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.(KJV JPS WBS)

Genesis 33:5 Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.(BBE)

Genesis 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.(KJV DBY WBS)

Genesis 43:14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Genesis 48:11 And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.(BBE)

Exodus 22:27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.(BBE)

Exodus 25:17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 26:34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)